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单词 retreating
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retreatingn.

Brit. /rᵻˈtriːtɪŋ/, U.S. /rəˈtridɪŋ/, /riˈtridɪŋ/
Forms: see retreat v.1 and -ing suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: retreat v.1, -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < retreat v.1 + -ing suffix1.
The action of retreat v.1 (in various senses); an instance of this.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > sentencing > [noun] > execution of judgement > reprieve, remission, or release from penalty
releasing1395
retreatinga1450
relaxation1520
reprivation1583
reprievala1586
reprieve1594
remission1625
reprievement1633
remish1958
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [noun] > retiring, withdrawing, or retreating
recoilc1330
retreata1393
subtraction?a1425
back-drawing1535
retirement1536
retiring1548
retraict1550
recess1561
retire1570
retiral1611
subducing1633
retiration1637
withdrawment1640
retirance1662
retreating1664
retraction1684
retreatment1721
withdrawal1824
back-pedalling1950
a1450 De Oblacione Iugis Sacrificii (Titus) l. 3404 in Wks. Lollard Preacher (2001) 244 Also seint Austen writiþ þus vpon þis word Omnis enim qui dimittit vxorem suam et cetera ‘Þe ordenauncis of þe Lord ben to be kept wiþouten any retreting’.
1489 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 114/1 Tuiching þe retretting of ane act & decrett gevin apoun þe said robert.
1589 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1881) 1st Ser. IV. 388 Divers utheris personis..hes obtenit certane pretendit retreitingis of the saidis sentenceis.
1639 Lawes & Ord. Warre 14 Their marching, retreating, or enquartering in or thorow any townes or countryes.
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. ii. 109 To secure, by swift retreating, Themselves from Danger of worse beating.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 19 He justifies himself for his retreating to his House.
1765 R. Rogers Jrnls. (1883) 80 My Lord How did us the honour to accompany us, being fond..to learn our method of marching, ambushing, retreating, etc.
1805 W. Wordsworth Waggoner iii. 141 Such retreating and advancing As..was never seen In bloodiest battle.
1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 341/1 The increased range of ordnance and small-arms nowadays renders retreating still more precarious.
1904 J. A. Harvie-Brown & H. A. Macpherson Fauna North-west Highlands & Skye 50 The advances and retreatings of our fauna in the struggle against adverse circumstances.
1962 Listener 29 Mar. 549/2 The intolerable choice between retreating and using nuclear weapons.
2016 D. Frey Failure to Pursue i. 14 In the absence of units fortuitously located to head off or to block a retreating, mobility of horses would be needed to get ahead of a retreating army.

Compounds

General use as a modifier.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [adjective] > affording refuge
retreatful?1624
retreating1639
1639 R. Ward Animadversions of Warre xxxi. 77 To make some Mine well planted with Powder, the Traine being drawne into your Reintrenchment or Retreating place; that so soone as the Enemy is entered: Fire may bee given and blow them up.
1659 in C. H. Firth Clarke Papers (1901) IV. 289 In case you showld reseave anie foyle, your retreating place is lost.
1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 149 While the retreating horn Calls them to ghostly halls of grey renown.
1798 Compl. Drill Serjeant (ed. 2) 32 In retraiting, the only difference is, the front division fires on its own ground, without advancing.
1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto V cvii. 188 The lady..bade Baba retire, which he obey'd in style, As if well used to the retreating trade.
1876 G. E. Voyle & G. de Saint-Clair-Stevenson Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 341/1 To..overcome all obstacles incidental to a retreating march.
1908 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 3rd iii. iii. 108 The retreating-way, Along which wambling waggons..Have crept in closening file.
1975 M. Patoski tr. A. I. Denikin Career of Tsarist Officer xxxi. 239 Brusilov customarily whisked the brigade into the ‘reserve command of the army’, so that two or three days later he could throw us again as relief into the scorching hell of battle,..or into the chaos of a retreating unit.
2008 M. Nelson 20 West v. 156 In 1868, he accepted this huge.., dry hunk of central Wyoming as his people's last retreating place.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

retreatingadj.

Brit. /rᵻˈtriːtɪŋ/, U.S. /rəˈtridɪŋ/, /riˈtridɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: retreat v.1, -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < retreat v.1 + -ing suffix2.
1. That moves or draws back or further away; that withdraws; that falls back.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > [adjective] > retiring, withdrawing, or retreating
retiringc1595
withdrawing1611
back1633
retreating1643
recondite1835
recedent1849
1643 Pr. Rupert's Jrnl. 21 Sept. in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1898) 13 735 The Prince beat the retreating Parliamentiers..3 miles from Newberrye.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 854 With clamor thence the rapid Currents drive Towards the retreating Sea thir furious tyde. View more context for this quotation
1767 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IX. vi. 27 Giving a stout hem! to rally back the retreating spirits,..the Corporal got as near the note as he could.
1798 M. Wollstonecraft Maria I. 3 The retreating shadows of former sorrows rushed back in a gloomy train.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough xxiii. 325 Her trembling Joy appears,—Her forc'd Reserve and his retreating Fears.
1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece III. 279 Who were all..unwilling to attack the retreating enemy.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 239 The English..set them [sc. men-of-war] on fire, and..retreated at a late hour with the retreating tide.
1901 R. Kipling Kim xv. 410 A faint clop-clop of Mahbub's retreating feet.
1977 Daily Express 29 Mar. 32/4 The ‘reserves’ had an extra couple of players, in the form of the England coaching staff, to thicken a retreating defence still further.
1998 Independent 4 Mar. i. 13/1 [The] US First Infantry Division..swept up the highway to Safwan, shelling the retreating columns of the Iraqi Republican Guard.
2.
a. Of a physical (esp. a facial) feature: sloping backwards, receding.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [adjective]
hollowa1250
holkedc1420
howea1500
deep-set1562
depressed1658
depressc1660
sunken1683
recessed1757
sunk1766
niche-like1841
retreating1878
sucken1878
1733 School of Miniature iii. 40 The tints..for the retreating Parts [of the body], and about the Eyes.
1792 H. Hunter tr. J. C. Lavater Ess. Physiognomy II. xi. 200 A retreating chin is not the absolute mark of a soft and effeminate character.
1825 U.S. Lit. Gaz. 1 May 109 Mr Canning (five feet eight or nine inches high, rather retreating forehead, nose long and slightly Roman).
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xi. 146 A protruding forehead, retreating eyes.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage 230 Along these retreating hills Hannibal placed the main part of his army.
1901 G. W. Cable Cavalier xix He had a retreating chin, a throat-latch beard and a roving eye.
1914 H. Stuck Ten Thousand Miles with Dog Sled x. 305 At close range the peaks seem stunted and inconspicuous, their rounded, retreating slopes lacking strong lines and decided character.
1946 Nature 28 Sept. 428/1 Many of the skull characters are remarkably simian, including heavy projecting supra-orbital ridges, retreating forehead, marked platycephaly and massive jaws.
1991 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 17 Nov. 7/3 That turnipy nose overhanging a forward-gaping mouth and hastily retreating chin.
b. Chiefly Painting. Of a colour, a painted object, etc.: that appears to be more distant than another on the same plane; appearing to move back or away.
ΚΠ
1832 New Monthly Mag. 36 109/2 The general perspective, however, with the retreating objects in the distance.., render it a valuable work of art.
1867 Cornhill Mag. Feb. 227 ‘The gray’, or retreating tint, which is to all moderns a sort of painter's puzzle, was by the old painters got first by washing.
1906 E. I. Barrington tr. F. Leighton in Life, Lett. & Work F. Leighton II. i. 63 The drapery of the principal figure should be much darker, and that of the retreating figure much lighter.
1937 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 49 126 (heading) A note on ‘advancing and retreating’ colors.
1993 I. Lehtpere tr. H. Düchting Kandinsky (2000) 40 The black arch appears as..an image of violent struggle, in which the red forms represent one side and the retreating blue silhouette the other.
2005 S. Crabtree & P. Beudert Scenic Art for Theatre vi. 167/2 A retreating color is often a cool color but it may be any color that appears to recede from the picture plane.

Derivatives

reˈtreatingness n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun]
recedence1641
retiring1730
retreatingness1845
1845 Prospective Rev. 1 259 The harmony of thought resembles that ever-continuing retreatingness of Nature.
1949 G. Cumberlege Chaucer vi. 74 But with all this retreatingness, she is inwardly drawn by his handsome mien.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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